Philip (Park Si-Hoo) and Eul-Soon (Song Ji-Hyo) were born at the same time and they seem to share fate. If one person is happy, the other person is unhappy. Philip has all the good luck in their fate and he is a top star. On the other, hand, Eul-Soon has all the bad luck and she works as a drama series screenwriter. They begin to work together for a drama series and mysterious things take place around them.

The drama in question is a KBS “horror romance” titled Lovely Horribly, and Park Shi-hoo (My Golden Life) has been offered the lead role, although no decisions have been made; he is said to be considering the role as one among several possibilities.

Lovely Horribly is described, in its broadest strokes, as a story about a man and a woman caught between chance and fate, and between horror and melo. The story features a drama writer with a touch of supernatural ability, in that things that are written in a script strangely come to pass in real life. The script’s main character is a top star, and the role Park Shi-hoo has been offered is of a top star named Yoo Philip. It’s not clear whether his character exists in the real world or whether he’s entirely fictional, but as W–Two Worlds showed us, a dimension gap never got in the way of true romance, did it?

The top star character harbors trauma from an incident eight years prior, when he was kidnapped by a stalker and nearly died. As a result, he struggles with fear on a daily basis, jumping at the slightest sounds and afraid of a whole host of things — fire, blood, heights, ghosts, and people. He finds it difficult to be in dark underground parking garages or to walk alone in empty corridors. Well, I do like idea of Park Shi-hoo playing wimpy over him showing off his bravado; he did well with being constantly surprised and shocked in his last drama, the weekend hit My Golden Life, which marked a hugely successful comeback for him. I have to admit I was pretty wary of watching him in a rom-com role again, but found him and Shin Hye-sun quite watchable in that drama (well, when the plot wasn’t being frustrating), so I’ll be looking to see who gets cast opposite him here.

Park Si-Hoo and Song Ji-Hyo cast in KBS2 drama series “Lovely Horribly”

Park Si-Ho and Song Ji-Hyo are now cast in KBS2 drama series “Lovely Horribly.” The drama series features a mixture romantic-comedy and horror. For the drama series, Park Si-Hoo will play top star Yoo Philip and Song Ji-Hyo will play screenwriter Ji Eul-Soon. They were born at the same time and seem to share fate.

“Lovely Horribly” first airs August, 2018 in South Korea (takes over KBS2’s Monday and Tuesday 10PM time slot after “Are You Human?“).